Yes documents speak of 234 ordered by Dutch East Indies and 240 by China.
During my research for the Dutch M.H. tanks I stumbled on many difficulties, for example the numbers delivered.
Only thing for sure is that the Dutch West Indies received 39 tanks from the dutch orders. The East Indies, well a source mentiones the delivery of 80 (?). These arrived on the "Straat Soenda" freighter. This ship run aground just before the coast of Java and all tanks were salvaged. Seven were even put in action.
Put the numbers all together the Dutch received 119 tanks. Remaining 115 that were delivered to Australia who received pressumably 149 tanks. If all these figures are right this means that 34 were Chinese (?). To make it even more difficult an ols US marine who served an Iceland told me the had some CTLS 4TA tanks on Iceland (?) and he is sure they were Dutch????
If this is true it means that the Australians received more Chinese tanks then we now!!!
So the glove does NOT fit perfectly yet!!
The hunt goes on.
hans H.
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